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Currently living in Ontario, Catherine Salinas has taken three Earth and Ocean Sciences distance education courses over the last two years, and plans to take a few more in the upcoming Winter term.
In 2003, UBC launched a campus-wide pilot project that explored the use of e-Portfolios for members of the university community. The project spanned 13 projects at a variety of levels throughout UBC, and included participation from more than 2000 students, instructors, and staff in total. The pilot project ended in 2006 and since then some […]
Dr. Patti Janssen, a 2009/2010 Killam Teaching Prize recipient, shares her experience working with OLT to develop a distributed learning format in the Master of Public Health program. She also discusses her teaching experience, and how she was able to use an online component to enhance the accessibility of the MPH to working health professionals.
Each year, the report identifies six areas of emerging technology that are most likely to have a significant impact on higher education within an adoption period of one to five years.
Tristan Banwell is currently enrolled as an unclassified student in distance education courses. He explains, “I am taking distance education because I plan to pursue a designation as a Registered Professional Forester in BC, and I need several additional courses to complete my ‘academic requirements’ before continuing with the application process.”